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独占 (どくせん, dokusen) Japanese meaning: monopoly | Kotomora
Common word› JLPT N1 › Freq. Frequency Top 5,000 Conjugation 独占する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'
Form Positive Negative Dictionary 独どく 占せん する 独どく 占せん しない Polite 独どく 占せん します 独どく 占せん しません Past polite 独どく 占せん しました 独どく 占せん しませんでした Past 独どく 占せん した 独どく 占せん しなかった Te-form 独どく 占せん して 独どく 占せん しないで Desire 独どく 占せん したい 独どく 占せん したくない Potential 独どく 占せん できる 独どく 占せん できない Passive 独どく 占せん される 独どく 占せん されない Causative 独どく 占せん させる 独どく 占せん させない Causative passive 独どく 占せん させられる 独どく 占せん させられない Volitional 独どく 占せん しよう Polite volitional 独どく 占せん しましょう Imperative 独どく 占せん しろ 独どく 占せん するな Conditional 独どく 占せん すれば 独どく 占せん しなければ Tara conditional 独どく 占せん したら 独どく 占せん しなかったら
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That company monopolizes the market.
The Antimonopoly Act exists to protect fair competition.
Usage patterns 〈 物もの 〉 を 独どく 占せん する to monopolize something (a market, resource, right)
That company monopolizes the domestic market.
話はなし を 独どく 占せん する to dominate a conversation, not letting others speak
He always ends up hogging the conversation.
〈 場ば 所しょ 〉 を 独どく 占せん する to hog a place or space for oneself
He hogged a whole train seat, sleeping across it.
独どく 占せん 的てき に 〈 動どう 詞し 〉 to do something exclusively or in a monopolistic way
The company sells the new technology exclusively.
Kanji 独 single, alone, spontaneously 占 fortune-telling, divining, forecasting Related words· 13 専有 focuses on exclusive possession or occupancy of physical space or property, while 独占 emphasizes controlling a market or resource as a whole.
独り占め is the casual, everyday word for keeping something all to yourself, while 独占 sounds more formal and is also used in economic contexts.
寡占 means a small number of firms control a market (oligopoly), whereas 独占 means a single entity has total control (monopoly).
独占 refers to the act of monopolizing something exclusively, while 独占欲 refers to the underlying psychological desire to do so.
Show 9 more 独占する is a neutral, businesslike word for monopolizing something, while 攫う (sense 2) has a more colorful, almost greedy nuance of scooping it all up.
独占 is the general word for having exclusive control or a monopoly over anything, while 専売 specifically refers to exclusive rights to sell a product.
独占 means a single firm monopolizing a market, whereas カルテル involves multiple firms colluding together.
独占 refers broadly to monopolizing control over something, whereas 買い占め specifically describes achieving that control through mass purchasing.
Opposites 共有 means sharing something jointly, the opposite of 独占's sense of hogging something all for oneself.
シェア means sharing something with others, while 独占 means keeping something exclusively to oneself, such as monopolizing a market.
独占 means to monopolize or keep something entirely for oneself, the opposite of 分担, which means sharing tasks or costs among several people.
Don't confuse with 独善 (self-righteousness) shares the kanji 独 with 独占 but means believing only oneself is right, not controlling or hogging a resource.
独占 means monopoly by a single firm, while 寡占 means oligopoly, control by a small group of firms.
Word family· 21 possessiveness; desire to monopolize; desire for control
semi-monopoly; quasi-monopoly
exclusive right; sole right
Etymology Compound of 独 (alone, single) and 占 (occupy, hold). The combination conveys the idea of occupying something exclusively.
独占する is monopolizing something broadly (markets, rights, attention), whereas 買い占める refers specifically to buying up physical goods or stock.
専用 describes something set aside for exclusive use, while 独占 emphasizes monopolizing or possessing something to the exclusion of others, often in a competitive or commercial sense.
独占 describes the resulting state of exclusive possession or monopoly, whereas 席巻 focuses on the dynamic process of sweeping across and overwhelming a field.
独占 stresses monopolizing something so no one else can access it, while 占有 simply means holding or controlling it, exclusively or not.
排他 focuses on shutting others out, while 独占 focuses on gaining sole possession or control of something.
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